Troy Hunt

MARCH 29, 2018

The penny first dropped for me just over 7 years ago to the day: The only secure password is the one you can't remember. In an era well before the birth of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), I was doing a bunch of password analysis on data breaches and wouldn't you know it - people are terrible at creating passwords!

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2018

One key bit of intelligence Bitdefender shares in a whitepaper is a breakdown of how EternalBlue has come into play, once again. However, the fact that cryptojackers infiltrated your infrastructure is an indication of a data breach. This will help minimize any potential fallout caused by a data breach.

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NopSec

JUNE 16, 2014

In the case of higher educational institutions there is data exposure risk from personally identifiable information, such as social security numbers. It may come as a surprise that a number of these significant data breaches were the result of very simple mistakes. The data itself is not always the primary target.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 15, 2021

Our research found that one in three consumers are extremely lax at updating software, clearing cookies and routinely resetting passwords. In fact, the passwords people commonly use are so easy to guess it would take no more than a couple of seconds for hackers to break them. Cyber risks paralyse consumers into inaction.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The Promise of Passwordless If you've been following the evolution of passwordless, you've likely read countless blog posts and whitepapers pondering the promise of this technology. The pitch is relatively simple: passwords are insecure and inconvenient, so let’s get rid of them. Passwords are insecure.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches. 1 in 4 Americans reported that they would stop doing business with a company following a data breach, and 67% of consumers reported a loss of trust in an organization following a breach. What Are Data Breaches?

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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